Eating Disorders For Dummies

Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and
eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the
straight facts you need to make sense of what’s happening
inside you and offers a simple step-by-step procedure for
developing a safe and health plan for recovery.

This practical, reassuring, and gentle guide explains anorexia,
bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as
other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising.
Informative checklists help you determine whether you are suffering
form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is
having or may soon have on your health. You’ll also get
plenty of help in finding the right therapist, evaluating the
latest treatments, and learning how to support recovery on a
day-by-day basis. Discover how to:

Identify eating disorder warning signs

Set yourself on a sound and successful path to recovery

Recognize companion disorders and addictions

Handle anxiety and emotional eating

Survive setbacks

Approach someone about getting treatment

Treat eating disorders in men, children, and the elderly

Help a sibling, friend, or partner with and eating
disorder

Benefit from recovery in ways you never imagined

Complete with helpful lists of recovery dos and don’ts,
Eating Disorders For Dummies is an immensely important
resource for anyone who wants to recover — or help a loved
one recover — from one of these disabling conditions and
regain a healthy and energetic life.

Susan Schulherr, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker
who has had a private psychotherapy practice in New York City for
nearly 30 years. She has worked with people with eating disorders
for over 20 of those years. Her chapter on treating binge eating
disorder appears in the 2005 book, EMDR Solutions: Pathways to
Healing (Shapiro, Norton). Her article, “The
Binge–Diet Cycle: Shedding New Light, Finding New
Exits,” was published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of
Treatment and Prevention (1998). She has presented workshops at
the local and national level on eating disorders and on issues of
weight and eating to both professional and nonprofessional
audiences.
Ms. Schulherr is a trained family and couples therapist. She has
extensive experience in the trauma specialty approaches of EMDR and
Somatic Experiencing, each of which she has adapted for the
treatment of eating disorders.

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